How can you help

Support a volunteer

The budget for one volunteer is on average £ 11,000 per year.  30% of this amount is allocated to insurance so that volunteers are safe and have a comprehensive health care plan. The rest is divided between the cost of training, living and transportation and the costs associated with the support of the volunteers while they serve on the projects. A gift of £ 2,500 will cover all the costs associated to training and support on the ground for one volunteer, £ 600 will cover all travel expenses for one volunteer, £ 150 will cover one month of food and stipend for one volunteer.

Support a project
By sending its skilled volunteers, FIDESCO provides an essential support to its local partners who work in underserved communities. FIDESCO strives to leverage this support by finding funds earmarked to projects that are crucial for the future of the local partners. FIDESCO receives many requests for support and performs a due diligence through its volunteers on the ground and the FIDESCO representative offices’ staff before selecting them in its portofolio of “projects in need of funding”. This portofolio currently includes asks for funds for:

• A van to be used by the volunteers who serve the communities that live in trailer camps in Gainesville, GA (cost = £ 7,500)
• The construction of kitchen facilities for an organization dedicated to the professional training of women in a very poor neighborhood of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (cost = £ 12,500),
• The renovation of a dispensary in Guinea staffed by FIDESCO volunteers that treats over 400 patients a day (cost = £ 75,000)
• The creation of a healthcare facility for communities that live on a garbage dump in Lima, Peru and its staffing (cost = £ 0,75M)

To make your donation, you can transfer your gift directly to:

To support the reconstruction of our projects in Haiti, following the earthquake,
please mention "Emergency Haiti" when you make your donation. We sincerely thank you for your generosity in this time of most urgent need!

Emmanuel Community Charity Trust
Bank account: 95814760
Sort code: 60-00-01
IBAN: GB75 NWBK 6000 0195 8147 60

Or download the following form: Fidesco Support Form UK (Word)

* If you are a UK taxpayer you may be able to use Gift Aid, which adds 28% to the value of your gift at no additional cost to you. In order for gifts to be eligible for Gift Aid, you must be a UK taxpayer who will have paid an amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains tax at least equal to the tax that UCL will reclaim on the gifts in the tax year in which the gifts are made.